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Automation Engineer Senior
| Company | Sanofi |
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| Location | Framingham, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $108750 – $181250 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or related technological field and 7+ years of experience or Master’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience
- 5+ years of hands-on programming experience with real-time manufacturing automation and control systems.
- Experience with DeltaV
- 3+ years of hands-on technical experience with troubleshooting and root cause analysis for manufacturing control systems
- 3+ years of hands-on technical experience with providing support for automated manufacturing operations
- Demonstrated knowledge of bus technologies and Instrumentation
- Demonstrated knowledge of validation requirements for control systems in CGMP and/or ASTM environments.
Responsibilities
- Providing leadership and direction to junior team members while embodying the principles of the Sanofi Global Leadership Model
- Leading automation related projects
- Managing contractors for staff augmentation or project roles
- Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams
- Partnering with support teams i.e., Manufacturing, Quality, etc to ensure deliverables are completed to meet to production schedules
- Mentoring junior automation engineers to ensure that the team applies compliant, efficient solutions to projects
- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives
- Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation are available to support operations schedule requirements
- Managing medium to large departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented
- Integrate systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process/building control systems
- Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity
- Lead development of automation standards
- Complying with Sanofi requirements for training
- Ensuring Inspection Readiness of assigned areas
- Overseeing completion of investigations and deviations
- Ensuring all assigned deviations and CAPA’s are closed in a timely manner
- Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready
- Participating in inspections conducted by external regulators
- Complying with requirements from Genzyme’s Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements
- Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to lead necessary changes in a timely and productive manner
- Partnering with Manufacturing to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s and 12+ years of experience or Master’s and 10+ years of experience
- Experience with SCADA/PLC systems such as Rockwell Factory Talk/RSLogix, Honeywell
- Experience with systems/network/validation, preferable in the chemical, pharmaceutical, foods, or other process industries is preferred
- Electrical Engineer or Chemical Engineer
- Experienced in establishment of safe practices in a cGMP environment.
- Proficient working with computer programs/applications such as Windows, VBA, MS Office applications, etc.
- Strong organizational skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and be accountable
- Proven technical and analytical skills to quickly resolve automation system issues
- Experience delivering solutions based on Digital 4.0
- Experience with IoT solution and edge devices.
